Finish the lyric from 'The Long and Winding Road': 'The long and winding road that leads to your...'

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The lyric “The long and winding road that leads to your...” is completed by “door” in The Beatles’ song “The Long and Winding Road.”

Paul McCartney wrote the song and The Beatles released it in 1970 on the album Let It Be. McCartney said the idea was inspired partly by the quiet roads around his farm in Scotland, while the lyrics use the road as an image of emotional distance and return.

Producer Phil Spector added orchestral and choral overdubs to the released single. These additions became controversial because McCartney had preferred a more stripped-back presentation, though the released version became a major commercial success.

The song became The Beatles’ twentieth and final US number-one single during the group’s active recording career. “Door” is the exact destination named in the lyric, not the more general word “home.”

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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